Enterprise Expo – 20th November 2025
Resilience. Relationships. Results
Welcome to Enterprise Expo – Work Avenue’s annual FREE flagship business event open to all entrepreneurs, freelancers, SMEs, and prospective business owners.
Running a small business takes more than just technical know-how – it takes vision, communication, and inner strength. This year’s Enterprise Expo is all about the soft skills that drive long-term success for micro business owners.
Whatever your business is, join us for a morning packed with practical insight and inspiring speakers. Topics include resilience and bouncing back from setbacks, communicating effectively with clients, and setting a clear vision and achievable goals for your business.
You’ll also have the chance to network with fellow business owners over coffee and lunch.
Walk away with renewed focus, greater confidence, and practical tools to help your business thrive.
Click here to sign up!
Outline of the day:
9:30 – 9:35: Opening
9:35 – 10:25: Session 1: The Resilient Entrepreneurs Toolkit
Rachel Ellison will be focusing on:
- What is resilience?
- Practical Tools to Stay Focused and Motivated
- Growth Mindset for difficult days
10:30 – 11:25: Session 2: Building Brilliant Client and Customer Relationships
Simon Sadie, Global Client President WPP Media will help you to explore:
- How to build trust with clients
- How to differentiate between what clients say and what they mean
- How to get a better understanding of the way clients remember how they feel more than what they say
This session will include practical suggestions and exercises that can help you evaluate your client and customer relationships.
11:25 – 11:55: Coffee & Networking
12:00 – 12:50: Session 3: Road to Results
Success starts with knowing your destination. In this session, Jonny Goldstone & Julia Blackman from EOS Worldwide will share how to define your business vision, map the steps to get there, and stay on track when challenges arise — so every action moves you closer to your goals.
- Pick your destination and set a clear vision for your business
- Plan the route to identify the steps to achieve it
- Handle the bumps in order to stay on course through challenges
12:50 – 1:50: LUNCH
Speaker Profiles:
Rachel Ellison MBE
Rachel coaches global C-suite and senior leaders in multinational commercial, public, and third-sector organisations. She works across industries including banking, law, electronics, automotive, retail, logistics, pharmaceuticals, government, healthcare, and NGOs.
A former BBC news correspondent and international project director, Rachel created and led diverse, award-winning teams in post-conflict zones and emerging economies such as Afghanistan, Myanmar, the former Soviet Union, and Kenya. She has worked with leaders from more than 45 different cultures, tribes, nations, and organisational systems.
Her specialist expertise is in creating resilience and preventing burnout, as well as leading in crises and in environments marked by acute uncertainty, vulnerability, and ambiguity.
She is the author of Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work (Routledge, 2019).
Awards include:
An MBE for the promotion of human rights and the self-empowerment of women in Afghanistan.
An Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University for her contribution to thought leadership and the field of coaching.
Simon Sadie
Simon is a Global Client President at the marketing services group, WPP. He leads the global partnership with adidas, a role he was appointed to in 2024 following a decade building WPP’s relationship with Mars
Simon has had a varied career, defined by building high-functioning teams in fast-changing, competitive situations.
He is a trained “Three Principles” practitioner, focused on helping people to understand how ‘state of mind’ impacts their ability to operate to their true potential.
Jonny Goldstone
Between 2006 and 2023, Jonny Goldstone co-founded, scaled, exited, reacquired, turned-around and re-exited the UK’s first environmentally friendly private hire company, Green Tomato Cars (GTC). Inspired by the impact of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) on his second stint with GTC, Jonny committed his future to helping other business leaders enjoy the sort of success and freedom he had experienced.
Julia Blackman
Julia Blackman is an entrepreneur, investor and mentor with over 20 years of hands-on experience. In 2003 Julia co-founded a business that raised significant funds for the film industry and other sectors. Since then she has invested in and guided businesses across diverse sectors – from hairdressing to property development to education – helping leaders navigate challenges and achieve meaningful growth. Now, as a Professional EOS Implementer, Julia helps business leaders get more of what they want from their businesses.